Serpent ZA Confronts South Africa's Violent Crime Crisis and Racial Targeting of Victims
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Serpent ZA Confronts South Africa's Violent Crime Crisis and Racial Targeting of Victims
Serpent ZA addresses the brutal reality of violent crime in South Africa, challenging those who attempt to justify attacks on people based on their race. Drawing from personal losses and documented cases involving tourists and citizens alike, he examines the tragedy of a nation where electric fences, armed guards, and panic rooms have become necessities. Through heartbreaking testimonies and crime reports, he dismantles the argument that anyone deserves to be targeted for violence because of their skin color or historical events they had no part in.
February 26, 2025
Living Behind Bars in South Africa
People in South Africa live in prisons. Electric fences, barbed wire, cameras, infrared beams, armed guards at the gates, a panic button in every room, burglar bars, and even a gate between the living room and bedroom—just in case intruders make it into your house, at least they won't torture, murder, and rape you in your bed. Everybody lives in some sort of prison, and if you venture out of this prison, it's like entering the wild west. You have to be careful—you could get chopped up with a machete or be hijacked at a bottleneck.
When you come home to these little prisons, you have to wait outside the gate while it opens. That's why you never stop right in front of your gate—you always open your gate as you're coming down the road so that you can quickly enter and then close up behind you. Nothing's safe in South Africa, not even the plants.
Understanding South Africa's Demographics
South Africa has a very large population of very poor people living in shanty towns. This is a mixture of black people, white people, and colored people, but of course the majority of South Africa is black, so you'll see more black people in the townships than colored people or white people. This is a mixture of South Africans and illegal immigrants and undocumented people from Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Botswana, and neighboring countries. South Africa is still the richest sub-Saharan African country, and that's where people want to go for opportunity.
Challenging the Justification Narrative
I wanted to put something to rest, something that really bothers me and annoys the crap out of me—those are the people that think that the targeting of white people in South Africa for brutal crime is somehow justified. All you need to do is go look in the comment section and you'll see an overwhelmingly positive response, and I must acknowledge everybody who was supportive. South Africa needs as much support as possible, especially the ethnic minorities like the Afrikaners who are targeted for ethnic cleansing at the moment, and it's not a joke.
But you get the other side of the coin with a bunch of people trying to say that it's justified, that you reap what you sow because of apartheid or because of what your people did to their people in the past, or your family did in the past—you deserve it or something along those lines. That is a bunch of nonsense. There is no justification for targeting people based on their race for violence, murder, torture, and rape. There's no justification at all.
I'm sad and I'm angry—very, very angry about it. You can't just go to someone's farm and start shooting them and taking their stuff. They were very good people, all of them. They were trustworthy and kind and they were the loveliest people on this earth, and now they're gone.
The Tourist Test: Debunking the Apartheid Excuse
I can very quickly debunk this idea that it's justified for white people to be attacked and murdered and have their property stolen in South Africa. What if you had a tourist from a Scandinavian country—let's say Norway or Sweden? They had nothing to do with apartheid, nothing to do with colonizing South Africa. What if they came on a plane and landed for the first time in Johannesburg? They head down the road, some criminals spot them in their rental car stopping off at a gas station. They decide to target them for crime, murder them, rape them, torture them, whatever. Did that tourist deserve it because some other person a hundred years ago with the same color skin did something to someone else? No.
There is no way to discriminate between the different races and backgrounds because you don't know where a white person comes from. It's impossible to say. It's very complicated for everyone. My family history is very complicated. My grandfather came down to South Africa as part of the Royal Air Force during World War II. Do you think he had anything to do with apartheid? Do you think he stole land from the natives?
The history of South Africa is a bit inconvenient if you actually look into it. If you go look at the real history, you'll see that a lot of the people—the Zulus and the Xhosas—who are claiming that their land was stolen, well, they weren't even there at the time that the Dutch settlers arrived. It was just the Khoisan people, and there are treaties signed, treaties and documents that you can find still from that day of the dealings and the land deals. Whether they were fair or not, we probably know the answer to that.
The thing is, you can never tell. There are plenty of tourists who've been murdered and had terrible things happen to them in South Africa. The people that did it to them didn't know they were tourists—they just see a white person and think that person deserves it because of apartheid. It's a stupid argument, a very stupid argument.
My friend who was murdered in her early 20s, who I grew up with, the younger sister of one of my best friends in high school—she was murdered in South Africa. She was white, and her family moved there because her father had to do work. I'm never going to get over the murder of this person who I thought of as a young sister to me. Her family wasn't even from South Africa. My best friend had to get work permits to work in South Africa even though he went to high school with me because he was of a different nationality, from a different country, and they just happened to be white.
Case Studies: The Brutality Against Innocents
Let's look at some fairly well-known articles of incidents that have happened and put this whole idea that people deserve to be targeted based on the color of their skin because of something that someone else did some other time in the past to rest. It's rubbish.
British Tourist at Kruger National Park (2002): A British tourist in South Africa was raped repeatedly while being held for 14 hours by a gang who shot dead a man when he tried to help her. This happened weeks after another British tourist was shot dead in a robbery in KwaZulu-Natal. The victim, age 29, and her South African boyfriend, age 26, were approached by the gang at lunchtime on Saturday while they were parked at Long Tom Pass, a remote beauty spot in the Kruger National Park. They were forced into the back of their Toyota Venture at gunpoint and driven around during the night. The woman was raped by the men while her companion was tied up.
The couple managed to escape when one of the gang lost control of the vehicle and the car overturned at about 4:00 a.m., about 140 miles from the scene of their abduction and 17 miles from the town of Barberton—that's actually where my dad was born. A passing motorist, Domingo Chambre, 34, from Gauteng, who had stopped to help, was shot in the head by one of the group who then fled the scene. Mr. Chambre died at the scene. The woman was receiving counseling as well as AIDS tests and anti-viral drugs. South Africa has the highest rate of AIDS and HIV—it's the world leader in that. Her boyfriend, who was stabbed in the leg, was treated in hospital.
This is absolutely awful. Did she deserve what happened to her because of apartheid or because of something that someone else did to someone else in the past? She was just in South Africa on holiday.
Hannah Cornelius (2017): A student who was gang raped and killed in South Africa, pleading with her kidnappers to let her go. A man who admitted to gang raping and murdering a university student in South Africa revealed she bargained with her attackers in a desperate bid for survival. Hannah Cornelius, 21, was carjacked by four men while dropping off fellow student Cheslin Marsh, 22, at his home in Stellenbosch, west of Cape Town. Stellenbosch is a very affluent, posh area. I was born in Cape Town, so this is where the rich people lived. But these were students—he was living in an apartment complex after a night out in May 2017.
One of her attackers claimed she told the gang they could have sex with her as long as they let her go afterwards. The men allegedly robbed and assaulted Mr. Marsh and left him for dead—they told him to put his head against a rock and beat his head with a brick until they thought he was dead—before brutally raping Miss Cornelius. They are accused of stabbing her in the neck and crushing her skull with a rock after she refused to get out of the boot of the car.
Geraldo Parsons, 27, broke down in tears at a Western Cape court as he went from pleading not guilty to confessing to the crime and implicating his co-accused. A weeping Parsons told the court he had not wanted to rape Miss Cornelius as he had a girlfriend and young children, but that he did it anyway. Parsons and three other men—Vernon Witbooi, 33, Nashville Julius, and Eben van Niekerk, 28—face a string of charges including murder, rape, and robbery.
Parsons told the court that the group had only intended on stealing Miss Cornelius's car after spotting it outside Mr. Marsh's block of flats, and that the incident spiraled after they saw the two students still inside. Vernon said Hannah said they could have sex with her but they must leave her after that, Parsons said, describing the look of terror in Miss Cornelius's eyes. He described how he was the first to rape Cornelius, before Witbooi and then van Niekerk.
He claims he told Witbooi to release Miss Cornelius afterwards, but instead the group threw the 21-year-old in the boot of her own car and drove to a nearby vineyard. She didn't want to climb out of the boot. She was holding on to the car. She started panicking. Eben came up and stabbed her. I let her go as the blood started to spill. Then I saw Vernon arrive with a rock. I told Vernon don't kill her, we've already killed Cheslin, let's leave her. But Vernon threw the rock on Hannah's head.
A state pathologist, Dr. Deidre Abrahams, told the court that the violence against her skull was so brutal it would have killed her instantly. The skull is made of very strong bones. It's not easy for a skull to break or crack unless a lot of power is used to break the skull, Dr. Abrahams told the Western Cape High Court. Describing the sexual assault, Dr. Abrahams told the court it would have been a very painful experience. Both the trauma to the head and the stab to her neck were fatal. However, Dr. Abrahams concluded that the blunt violence which cracked her skull is the most likely cause.
I guess she deserved it because she was born in South Africa? Just because you're born in a certain place, you suddenly absorb the sins of something that happened in the past? It's a tough one because you really don't know the family history. Maybe her family did have something to do with apartheid, maybe her great-great-great-grandfather did something bad, or maybe they bought some land from someone at a discount price. I don't know, it's hard to say, but she obviously deserved it, right? Because she was born in South Africa.
Israeli Woman at Mpumalanga: An Israeli woman was gang raped in South Africa over the weekend, local police say. The tourist and her two companions were attacked at a cabin in Mpumalanga. A police spokesman said all three victims were also robbed. Police launched a manhunt for four men who carried out the attack. Men raped the woman and also robbed the three of their personal belongings before fleeing the scene. No arrests have been made yet, and spoiler alert, they probably won't.
Again, did this person deserve it? No, because they're not South African. They weren't born in South Africa. They might look like white South Africans, but to be targeted based on the color of their skin—it's terrible to do that to someone from not South Africa, right? You see where I'm going with this.
The Absurdity of Racial Justification
It's absurd. It's a stupid argument. I could carry on with this all day. There are so many instances where tourists and people who are not South African have been targeted based on the color of their skin for violent crime and terrible things in South Africa. That's just because there is no distinction. There's no distinction between a British person and a Swedish person and a person from Brazil or anywhere else, any other country where a person can look white.
There's no distinction in South Africa, and that's understandable because the white South African population is incredibly diverse and mixed. We've got Lebanese people, Greeks, Portuguese, and a mixture of everybody—you name it. We've got so many diverse white people in South Africa that yes, you can't really tell the difference. If somebody's just a little bit lighter than black people, they're considered to be white in South Africa and they're a target.
My point is: shut the hell up, anyone who wants to say that people deserve some kind of horrible crime happening to them because of the color of their skin. Shut the hell up. Think about your particular situation wherever you are, doesn't matter what country you're in. Think about it. If you have lighter skin, do you think you deserve to be attacked and murdered and tortured in South Africa? Do you think so? If not, then shut the hell up.
I don't think anyone of any skin color deserves to be targeted based on the color of their skin. I honestly don't. I don't care if you're brown or black or yellow or green or blue or pink—you name it. You do not deserve to be attacked based on the color of your skin. I believe that people deserve to be attacked based on their actions. If you're a bad person and you're doing something bad and somebody sees you doing that bad thing, yeah, okay, fair game. But if you're just a dude or a dudette walking down the street, carrying on, driving your car, doing whatever it is, just because you are of a particular color, you don't deserve to be attacked. I believe people should be judged on their personal merit, judged on their character, judged by their individual actions, not the actions of somebody who looks like them.
Acknowledgment and Moving Forward
I just wanted to end this by saying thank you once again to the American government for finally doing something about South Africa—no longer sending random aid money to that government, that communist government, that government that wants to steal the land from the people, that government that's just corrupt and has done nothing to improve the lives of the people over the past 30 years. It's been over 30 years now since the fall of apartheid, so no excuses.
I'm very glad to see that something is happening. I also just want to thank every single one of you who watched my video. I know there are still people out there who might say that I deserve crime against me because of something that someone else did in the past, and they think that I had a privileged upbringing in South Africa because of apartheid or something like that. To you guys I'll say: you can have every single privilege that I ever had, because the only privilege I had growing up in South Africa was being burdened with a bunch of guilt that didn't belong to me and then having to fight to try and find a job in an unfair system that discriminated against me and to have to eventually leave the country of my birth because there was no opportunity and it was a hostile place towards me because of the color of my skin.
When I left South Africa, I had nothing. So you are very welcome to the nothing that I had. If you call having nothing privilege, great—then everyone's just as privileged as me, everyone who's struggling out there. Thank you and please join me for the Friday show that I do, the live show. It's about China. I don't plan to talk about South Africa again for a while unless something really crazy comes up. Thank you for sticking with me during this slight diversion on my channel. I usually talk about China. I appreciate it very much.
